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Education Professor Deborah Chen (Special Education) co-presented with two graduate students in Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE), Allison Jolley, M.A., ECSE Educational Specialist (Eagle Rock Elementary School) and Elizabeth Leone, M.A., ECSE Educational Specialist (Lankershim Elementary School) a session entitled "Using Action Research to Promote Early Literacy Skills of Preschoolers with IEPs" at the Division for Early Childhood's 29th Annual International Conference on Young Children with Special Needs and Their Families, San Francisco, California, October 18, 2013.

Education Professor Bonnie Ericson (Secondary Education) was the session chair of "Downshifting to Support the Academic Growth of High School English Learners: Lessons in Close Reading across Multiple-Genre Texts." This session included: Mira Pak (Secondary Education), "The Classroom Context"; Sandra DaLie (Northridge Academy High School, LAUSD, CSUN Instructor), "Close Reading across Multiple-Genre Texts: Graffiti"; and Jenn Wolfe (Valley Academy of Arts and Sciences, LAUSD, CSUN Instructor), "Strategies for Close Reading of Multiple Texts." This session was at the National Council of Teachers of English Convention, Boston, Massachusetts, November 22, 2013.

Education Professor Wendy Murawski (Special Education, CTL) gave the keynote address at the 21st Statewide Inclusion Works Conference, Texas, February 2014. In addition, Dr. Murawski presented webinars on "Co-teaching and Inclusion" for Higley Unified School District, Arizona, and Ohio's Special Education Support Team. Also, Drs. Wendy Murawski and Tamarah Ashton (Special Education) co-presented on co-teaching, San Pedro High School, California, February 2014.

Education Professors Ellen Schneiderman and Rachel Friedman Narr (Special Education) presented "Implementing the Common Core with Deaf/Hard of Hearing (DHH) Students" for teachers and administrators of DHH students, Riverside, California, September 9, 2013. In addition, Drs. Schneiderman and Narr presented the same session for teachers and administrators in Ventura, California, November 14, 2013.

Education Associate Professor Ivor Weiner (Special Education) presented "Working with Families Who Have Children with Autism" for teachers, university professors, and professionals at the Amity International Autism Conference, Nanjing, China, October 18, 2013.